A Material that Can Be a Mirror... Then a Window
A group of MIT scientists have created a new material that can be both a mirror and a window, and no it's not a one-way mirror. This new material can filter light depending on the direction of the...
View ArticlePut a Bird on It: Get Lost in Juan Fontanive's Motorized Flip Books Featuring...
You may not see much of your well-worn childhood flip books past the age of 10—or maybe even younger thanks to the intrigue of more developed, tech-savvy toys. Juan Fontanive has something to say about...
View ArticleMilan 2014: 'Taste of an Object' Offers a 12-Course Tasting Menu of Polish...
It's never a perfect analogy, but it can be interesting when it comes close enough: Attempting to translate one creative discipline into another is, to mutilate the metaphors, more difficult than...
View ArticleFriendly Architecture, a Climbing-Gym-Turned-Coworking-Space and Young...
All photos by Catalina Kulczar-MarinLike with any other conference aimed at sparking innovation and creativity, you're going to leave the event with too much information to process. (Moan and groan...
View ArticleAfterschool Podcast with Don Lehman - Episode 19: Craighton Berman, Founder...
Hosted by Don Lehman, Core77's podcast series is designed for all those times you're sketching, working in the shop, or just looking for inspiration from inspiring people. We'll have conversations with...
View ArticleHoly Cow: NASA Says Pollution from Asia is Affecting North American Weather
Had the Industrial Revolution never happened, there'd still be doctors, lawyers, farmers and merchants—but there darn sure wouldn't be any industrial designers. It's a bit of a shame that the event...
View ArticleA Modular Jacket Design
Can a single jacket be all things to all people? Of course not, but perhaps a single jacket design could be all things to all fisherman. A Japanese company called Mountain Research has developed this...
View ArticleWhen an App Won't Do: Designing a Timer
Timers might not sound like an organizing product—but as a professional organizer, I recommend them to my clients all the time. They're great for overcoming procrastination; end-users can set the timer...
View ArticleThomas Lamadieu Blurs the Line Between Photography and Illustration in 'Skyart'
While some may call a clear, blue sky art enough, French artist Thomas Lamadieu might say otherwise. In fact, he might call it a blank canvas. His ongoing series, Skyart, takes the blank spaces between...
View ArticleMilan 2014: 'Dutch at Savona 33' Showcases Frederik Roije, New Duivendrecht &...
The Dutch made a strong showing throughout Milan this year, including in Zona Tortona where a loose collective headed up by Frederik Roijé is returning alongside Tuttobene and Moooi to represent of a...
View ArticleNuclear Floats: Delicious or Disastrous?
This week in nouveau-Cold War news: MIT researchers will present plans for floating nuclear reactors, adapting existing technologies towards a goal put to rest during the Ford Administration. Floating...
View ArticleA Short-Lived USB LED Fan Clock
Winter might be coming to Westeros, but here in NYC it's the impending arrival of summer that has me worried. Your correspondent has relocated to new, poorly-insulated digs with a bank of drafty...
View ArticleC77 Design Daily - Submit Your Questions to Ayse Birsel for a Chance to Have...
Although NYCxDesign is still three weeks away, we've been lining up some of the content for the C77 Design Daily—after all, it's our very first effort at publishing our content in print and it's not...
View ArticleC77 Design Daily - Submit Your Questions to Ayse Birsel for a Chance to Have...
Although NYCxDesign is still three weeks away, we've been lining up some of the content for the C77 Design Daily—after all, it's our very first effort at publishing our content in print and it's not...
View ArticleStarck and Axor Dematerialize the Sink Faucet
We thought the PermaFLOW transparent sink trap was a pretty brilliant innovation, allowing you to see and clear those pesky under-basin clogs. But from Philippe Starck by way of Hansgrohe comes the...
View ArticleIn the Details: How to Build a Cloudlike Chair with Just 550 Pounds of Wool...
While the Layers Cloud Chair might feel (and look) like you're sitting on a cloud, the bulbous lounge is anything but weightless. It's made from 550 pounds of solid wool—and its construction was a...
View ArticleMichiel Cornelissen's 3D-Printed ZooM Lampshade Expands from a Small Build...
3D-print-happy designer Michiel Cornelissen is at it again. To create his clever ZooM lampshade, Cornelissen has adopted the trick we first saw Sklyar Tibbits messing around with, where you print...
View ArticleMeet the Golden Goose: The Easiest Way to Make 'Golden Eggs'
With Easter right around the corner, it's the perfect time to introduce a quirky gadget made just for eggs. With a name like Golden Goose, you would expect to find it among the pages of a children's...
View ArticleMilan 2014: Materials Explorations from Studio Formafantasma and Bart Hess at...
Along with the nearby ECAL exhibition, Studio Formafantasma's "De Natura Fossilium" at Palazzo Clerici was one of the most buzzed-about projects in the Brera District this year—after all, Andrea...
View ArticleFall in Love with Your Job as a Mobile Designer at OkCupid
This dating site is looking to hook someone up as a designer for their mobile interface, which introduces millions of users to new people. OkCupid—which is located in New York, New York— is the...
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